Garment-fastener.



Patented April 5, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CAESAR R. BANNIHR, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GARMENT-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 756,201, dated April 5, 1904.

Application filed Angus 12, 1902.

Serial No. 119,402. (No model.)

T all whom it y COW/067%: plate 13 corresponding eyes and slots or slits,

Be it known that'I, CAESAR B. B NNIHR, a as shown in the drawings. In Fig. 1 are citizen of the United States, residing at New shown those which have a double hook and York, in the county and State of New York, loop and in Figs. 2 and 3 those with a single have invented a new and useful Garment-Fashook and loop. 5 5

tener, of which the following is a specification. The fastener is made of sheet metal, as here My invention relates to improvements in shown, which metal is rolled to harden it to garment-fasteners where one part is secured to make it springy. The blanks are cut in the one part of a garment and the other or counform shown in the different figures and are terpart to another part of the garment or necessarily cut of the shape shown to suit the where is desirable to secure a garment to special purposes for which they are to be another garment; and the objects of my imused-namely, the form shown in Figs. 4 and provements are, first, to provide a fastener 5 is suitable for the class of hose-supporters which may be easily applied; second, to be of which the upper end is secured to an up- 5 simple in its manufacture; third, to be light, per garment and is shownin thedrawings flat, and flexible; fourth, to be so arranged as of an application for a patent for hose-supnot to be easily or accidentally separated, yet porters filed by me February 25, 1-902. The to be simple in disconnecting one part from form shown in Figs. 7 and 8 is suitable for a the other. I attain these objects by the dehose-supporter of the kind shown in Fig, 2.

2 vice illustrated in the accompanying drawings, Figs. 3 and 15 show the form of fastener in whichused in securing one part of a garment to an- Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a other, similar to the common hook and eye garment with two of the fasteners of a douor snap-button. Ido not, however, limit myble hook and loop kind attached, showing how self to the exact construction of these parts,

5 it is used in connection with a stocking-supfor some slightly-different form may be deporter. Fig. 2 is aface viewof asingle hook siralole, as the hook may be made of heavier and loop kind as applied to a stocking-supmetal or the shape may be varied alittle, and porter of another style. Fig. 3 is a perspecthus require the loop to be made with a slit tive view of asingle hook and loop kind apto conform to it. So long as the same princi- 3 plied to a garment where one part is secured ple as herein shown is carried out in each case to another by means of the fastener. Fig. A the purpose is accomplished so far as the fasshows a face view of the double-hook plate; tener is concerned, which consists of'thehook- Fig. 5, a face view of the double loop; Fig. plate A, with the hook a, and neck a, and the 6, an edge end view of the loop shown in loop-plate B, and eye d, slot Z), slit e, and hole 35 Fig. 5; Fig. 7, a face view of a single-hook e. The hook a has the form of a snail and 5 plate; Fig. 8, a face View of a single loop; is cut from the plate and raised up a little Figs. 9 and 10, edge views of the same. Fig. more than the thickness of the metal remain- 11 shows a face view of the loop-plate as ing connected at the neck 0. The neck is shown in Fig. 3; Fig. 12, a side view; Fig. 13, formed up at an angle or incline of about 4 a face view of the fastener-hook plate as sixty degrees and the hook remains parallel 9 shown in Fig. 3, and Fig. 14: a side view of with the surface of the plate. the same. Fig. 15 shows a face view of the The loop-plate B has the eyed and slot 6 fastener when hooked together. Fig. 16 or slite cut in it. The eye d is a hole of the shows an enlarged section of the hook and size to allow the hook a to pass in, and the 45 loop as the loop passes the neck of the hook. slot extends for a short distance and becomes Similar letters refer to similar parts throughsimply a slit at the end without any metal beout the several views. ing removed and at the end of the slit is a The hook-plate A and loop-plateBform the hole 6 about the size of the width of the neck two parts of the fastener. The hook-plate A 00f the hook a. In the hook part there are 5 may have one or two hooks and the loopholes punched around the edge, which isde- I00 pressed, so the thread with which the plate is sewed onto a garment will lie below the sur face and the edges of the loop cannot rub or cut, the thread. The loop of the kind shown in Figs. 3 and 14 also has this means for sewing the same to a garment. The kind shown in Figs. 1 and 2 have the usual slots to secure these to a web.

To catch the two parts of the fastener together, it is only necessary to pass the snailshaped hook a through the hole or eye d in the loop-plate B and pull the loop-plate forward, which will then slip into place with a snap as the slit 6 passes over the incline of the neck 0 of the hook at, and the small hole e will encircle the neck of the hook. To unfasten it, suflicient force is required to push the hook-plate one way and the loop the other to cause the spring-plate of the loop to be forced up on one side and down on the other in passing the neck of the hook the same as when applied. The manner in which the slit 6 in the loop may pass over the incline of the neck 0 of the hook at is shown in Fig. 16. One side of the slit passes on the under side of the neck and the other on the upper side.

It is not necessary to go into a detailed description of such parts of garments as are shown in the several views to which the fastener is applied, as it does not necessarily follow that these are the only garments in connection with which this fastener may be used.

I am aware that garment-fasteners of sheet metal or wire comprising a hook and loop have been made prior to my invention. I gherefore do not claim this feature, broadly;

What I do claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a garment-fastener a hook-plate having a hook of a snail-shaped outline partially cut from said plate and raised above it with the neck of the hook between the hook and plate standing at an angle to the surface of the plate, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In a garment-fastener a spring-metal loop-plate with a slit cut in it, the metal simply being severed and a hole at each end of said slit, one hole being larger than the other,

between the plate and hook, substantially as herein shown and described.

4. In a hook-and-loop garment-fastener having a hook-plate provided with a hook, a neck between the hook and the hook-plate lying at an incline to the surface of the plate and hook and a spring-metal loop-plate provided with two holes and a slit between them which may separate on the incline of the neck of the hook, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

5. In a hook-and-loop garment-fastener a loop consist-ing of a spring-metal plate with a depressed edge having small holes punched out in it for securing the plate to a garment, a hole for the hook of a hook-plate to enter, and a smaller hole to encircle the neck of said hook and a slit between the two holes to separate on the incline of the neck of said hook when forced over it, all as herein shown and described.

6. In a hook-and-loop garment-fastener, a hook-plate with a depressed edge having small holes punched out in it, a snail-shaped hook partially cut from and raised above the surface of the plate, remaining connected at the neck, which is formed at an angle to the surface of the plate and hook, and a spring-metal loop-plate having two holes with a slit between them which may engage with said hook, substantially as herein shown and described.

7. In a hook-and-loop garment-fastener a double-hook plate and a double-loop plate, the hook-plate having two hooks, one right and one left, with an inclined neck to each hook, lying in opposite directions, the loop-plate having corresponding eyes and slits which may engage with said hooks substantially as herein shown and described.

CAESAR R. BANNIHR.

Witnesses:

THOS. D. MOELROY, C. H. KRUEGER. 

